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  • A Dangerous Bet

    A Dangerous Bet

    As sports betting sweeps the nation, colleges aren’t just watching from the sidelines—they’re cashing in on the action, monetizing their students’ vices.

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  • The Activist Veto

    The Activist Veto

    How identity politics restricts scientific inquiry.

    Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the National Association of Scholars on February 3, 2026. It is crossposted here with permission. Scientific inquiry has suffered another blow amidst the ongoing…

  • Day After Day

    Day After Day

    The National Association of Scholars calendar revels in the unexpected.

    Last year, after receiving in the mail wall calendars from several organizations that I esteem, and several more from organizations that I esteem a little less, I thought the National…

  • Can Civic Education Be Saved Without Saving Education?

    Can Civic Education Be Saved Without Saving Education?

    James Traub’s “The Cradle of Citizenship” perceptively documents the collapse of reading in public schools but underestimates how politicized pedagogy makes meaningful civic education reform unlikely

    James Traub’s The Cradle of Citizenship: How Schools Can Help Save Our Democracy (2026) is a curious mixture of ideological blinders and perceptive reporting. The former is announced bluntly in…

  • Gatsby Warned Us About Party Culture

    Gatsby Warned Us About Party Culture

    Campus party culture and the emptiness beneath the glamour.

    This year, instead of making my high school sophomores take the test on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, I gave them the option to produce a podcast. Some of…

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    Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

    An ed-tech executive argues higher education must adapt to AI as students and institutions prioritize job-market returns.
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    Dear Professors, Stop Using AI

    Students are rebelling against a one-way standard on AI in higher education.
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    The AI Critic

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    That’s Not Good

    A weak job market awaits recent graduates—and young men are feeling the contraction most.

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  • A White-Collar Trade School?

    A White-Collar Trade School?

    A view that college should prepare students for immediate employment is now mainstream across America.
  • Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

    Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

    An ed-tech executive argues higher education must adapt to AI as students and institutions prioritize job-market returns.
  • A Market Test

    A Market Test

    Degrees that don’t deliver face a federal cutoff—just as the job market grows less forgiving.
  • That’s Not Good

    That’s Not Good

    A weak job market awaits recent graduates—and young men are feeling the contraction most.